THE Alperien Sengun stood in the weakness of the Giannis Antetokounbos in sharing the ball to his teammates.
Following Turkey’s triumph over National Greece in the Eurobasket semifinals, Alperien Shengun spoke about Yiannis Antetokounbos’ weakness in the pass.
“We put Osmani on him and helped as we could. And Ekan did a great job tonight. Of course, John is one of the best players in the world. And we just helped Erkan. I think we did a good job.
It’s not a terrible passer. He is an amazing player but not a terrible passer. So we helped and closed the painter.
It doesn’t have to be my night every night. It was the night of my teammate. I try to be aggressive, to play aggressively. I knew the ball was coming to me, so I could only do the best I could defensively and easily shot the attack. They did my job tonight and I’m happy.
Ataman said we are a better team. He said, “I have been training 30 years. If I say something is true.” He gave us confidence, and we went out and we played.
They didn’t make a bad look. We did our game. They are a great team, they played very well. We went out and fought. We played more aggressively. We played harder than them. We put a shot. We were better tonight, “were the words of Alperien Sangun.